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Annette Hübschle

@ahubschle.bsky.social
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Research scholar Green criminologist Economic sociologist Passionate about environmental, planetary and AI futures

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Check out newly published Handbook of Wildlife Crime with starting premise of taking a critical approach to researching/understanding wildlife crime. With most wonderful coeditors @ahubschle.bsky.social R. Wong L. Gutierrez T. Wyatt & contributors @geogdurham.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime
The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms. The effects of wildlife crime and overexploitation are contribu...
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
English late summer / autumn - I was too trusting of the weather forecast 🫣🥶🫣
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
So lovely to reconnect, exchange and share thoughts and ideas and meet your amazing research network. Looking forward to future collaborations ❣️
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thank you so much for the amazing and inspiring time in Sheffield. Really loved learning about the park system in the UK where the landed gentry, farmers and villagers live inside the Park. And property prices are sky high because of being located on the inside!
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We completed our exchange visit btwn UCT & Sheffield with, what else, but a trip around the Peak District National Park 😀 A perfect landscape to discuss land ownership patterns & models of National Parks - thanks so much to @ahubschle.bsky.social & Maano Ramutsindela for great conversations
Three people and a dog stood on grey rocks looking out cactus’s moorland. Two people shaking hands in front of the boundary marker for the National park (circular millstone)
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This week we had a wonderful workshop with Maano Ramutsindela & @ahubschle.bsky.social this week; they respected their new research on transfrontier parks and harmscapes. It was a great way to meet old friends & new ⬇️
11 people sitting around a white meeting table; water bottles & coffee cups on the tablePowerPoint slide on screen; it reads ‘peace parks without peace’ PowerPoint slide, it reads Harmscapes: Rethinking governance in socio ecological systems
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Amazing! Yes - we have a small evidence grant in the Northern and Western Cape regions to look into access and benefit sharing. It would be wonderful to compare notes!
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This week at #SASE2025 I’m speaking about how inclusion and exclusion shape illegal wildlife markets. Succulents are just one example. How do we build markets that centre justice, livelihoods, and ecological care? #Succulents #IllegalMarkets #IWTChallengeFund #DEFRA #EconomicSociology
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Grassroots harvesters and farmers in Southern Africa – who’ve cared for and used these plants for generations – are often criminalised or excluded, while retailers here profit off biodiversity with little traceability or benefit-sharing.
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🪴 Saw some glorious succulents for sale in a Montreal supermarket today. Beautiful, commodified, accessible. But it made me think about who doesn’t get to profit from these markets.
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Dean Clay @drdeanclay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New from me in @africasacountry.bsky.social - the US-backed Lobito Corridor in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches. Read here: africasacountry.com/2025/03/new-...
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New route for old exploitation
A US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I have been massively impacted by US funding cuts. I stayed silent hoping that things would change hoping appeals would succeed but silence is not golden. We need to talk about the irrational defunding of science funding in general, and specifically in South Africa. www.linkedin.com/posts/annett...
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#usaid #softfunded | Annette Hübschle, PhD
Like many others, I have been massively impacted by the #USAID and US federal funding cuts. I stayed silent hoping that things would change and administrative…
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Policing Insight @policinginsight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The challenges and potential of artificial general intelligence in policing policinginsight.com/feature/inno...
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The challenges and potential of artificial general intelligence in policing
In the latest in a series of articles exploring the opportunities and challenges presented to police by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), Chief Philip Lukens explores the potential of…
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
South Africa’s succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas – are sought after by an increasingly international collector market www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...
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SA’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it
South Africa’s succulents are sought after by an increasingly international collector market.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
such a pleasure to present in Manchester on some of my newer work related to conservation justice and reconnect with colleagues there!
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The conservation-focused NGO African Parks bought megafauna tycoon John Hume’s rhino breeding project for an “undisclosed sum” in 2023, with the noble aim of rewilding the animals over the next decade. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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John Hume’s rhinos were cheap, but rewilding comes at a price
The NGO that bought the world’s largest herd of white rhinos in private hands got them for a song, but their upkeep in a secure setting, as well as rewilding them, will undoubtedly cost a fortune.
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It’s become a bit of a problem. Geotags and locations gleaned from science and social media has posts. Hopefully the conophytums that you saw are still there
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it. New article by @jaredmargulies.bsky.social and I on ongoing research into illegal succulent supply and demand networks theconversation.com/south-africa...
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South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it
Over 1 million of South Africa’s rare succulents have been illegally harvested since 2019.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@ahubschle.bsky.social and I have a new article out in @theconversation.com about how to approach the illegal succulent trade in South Africa through the lens of conservation justice. theconversation.com/south-africa...
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South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it
Over 1 million of South Africa’s rare succulents have been illegally harvested since 2019.
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
South Africa's excellent constitution strikes again: The High Court has ruled that the country can't open new coal plants because that would violate citizens' rights to a healthy environment.
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James Granelli @jamesgranelli.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📄 New piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social Raira and I explore how the fossil fuel industry appropriates the language of resource sovereignty, #decolonisation and #sustainabledevelopment critiques to expand extractavism and green colonialism on the continent. africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
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Liberation is not propaganda
At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.
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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Civilised world? Who’s that please?
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Love the track so much! This mortal coil - Brings up memories. Thanks for sharing. Remember it also played in Requiem for a dream
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Andrew Fraser @arfness.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
www.ewn.co.za/2024/12/02/u...
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UNPOISON SA: Minister Steenhuisen has misled us about terbufos
The minister’s speech was full of misinformation that protects his department, CropLife, and terbufos manufacturers from taking responsibility for the deaths of these children, and the harms from the ...
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🌊 Antarctica: A Fragile Harmscape 🐧 Article in #DailyMaverick on threats facing Antarctica—climate change, krill harvesting, and geopolitics. We are researching these issues, exploring how to protect this vital ecosystem through a harmscapes lens. #Antarctica #Harmscapes #BlueCriminology
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Polar politics: ‘Krill, baby, krill’ - what Donald Trump means for imperilled Antarctica
Analysts, including a former official who served in Trump’s first administration, think US influence under the president-elect may be a slow-burning disaster. Could it also hold counterintuitive promi...
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you! So on it 😄
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please add me 🙏
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Could you please add me Rosamunde?
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
Really thoughtful review of my book published in the sociological review magazine by Luis Miguel Barboza Arias. Delighted by this generous read: thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/the-...
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The Cactus Hunters by Jared D. Margulies
Luis Miguel Barboza Arias reviews The Cactus Hunters by Jared D. Margulies – a book exploring the relationships between plant collectors and the rare succulents they desire.
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really exciting special issue on #WildlifeTrade - check it out ⬇️
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hi Eline, please add me - many thanks
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Would love to connect in the real world! Let me know when passing through my neck of the woods next
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🌿 Excited to share our paper 'The Need for a Socioecological Harm Reduction Approach to Reduce Illegal Wildlife Trade'. We propose balancing conservation with human dignity through community-driven, sustainable strategies. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #HarmReduction #IWT
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Annette Hübschle @ahubschle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Seeking to connect with new & old friends. Keen to learn about ongoing debates, new research and publications. I am a research scholar at the University of Cape Town with a focus on environmental, planetary and AI futures. This includes governance, risk, harms and justice perspectives.
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